About Jennifer Beall

Have you ever heard someone tell an aspiring author to write about what she knows? I believe the same is true of counseling. I specialize in working with issues that are familiar to me, either because I have struggled with them myself or because someone close to me has done so. I believe that this personal experience gives a depth to my counseling work that it would not otherwise have.

So, how do you decide whether I might be a good fit for your needs? If you can identify with any of the following statements, there’s a good chance that I might be.

1.    I have difficulty trusting people and I’m afraid that I won’t be able to open up to a therapist.
2.    I am very critical of myself.
3.    I feel like people wouldn’t like me if they knew the real me.
4.    I sometimes feel like an impostor, like I don’t really know what I’m doing.
5.    It seems like everyone else got a rule book for life that I didn’t get.
6.    I sometimes feel hopeless.
7.    Sometimes it’s hard for me to get out of bed in the morning.
8.    I often feel sad, low, or depressed.
9.    I wish I knew what “normal” was.
10.    I often feel uncomfortable around other people.
11.    I’ve never really felt like I was important.
12.    Sometimes I feel like I’m really a kid, not an adult.
13.    I have trouble saying no to other people.
14.    I sometimes feel like other people take advantage of me.
15.    I feel like I’m always taking care of other people, but nobody takes care of me.
16.    I’m a perfectionist.
17.    My parents fought a lot when I was a kid.
18.    At least one of my parents was an alcoholic, addict, mentally ill, or chronically physically ill when I was growing up.
19.    I tried to “blend into the woodwork” as a kid.
20.    I constantly tried to make my parents happy, but I rarely, if ever, could.

If any of these sound like you, I’d love to hear from you. Contact me today!